alt Hacker NewsIt's really not. It was a fun toy but had very little utility. It could generate plausible looking text that collapsed immediately upon any amount of inspection or even just attention. Code generation wasn't even a twinkle in Altman's eye scanning orbs at that point.
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smoghat • today at 12:58 PM
But like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...
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tomalbrc • today at 12:08 PM
Talking about revisionist…
I think you misunderstand the comment you replied to. They are saying the above comment was a rhetorical exaggeration of GPT-2's capabilities as a commentary on how low quality Samsung TV software is. They don't actually think GPT-2 was very capable. It is a figure of speech, not a literal statement.